Visiting Nebraska

We spent the Memorial Day weekend in Nebraska visiting the Nider family.  It was an eventful and fun couple of days. 

A notable comment came from Les, about the car Mark drove during his college years (the column and photo posted on May 17,).  Mark used to say the car got painted once a year whether it needed it or not.

We also managed to visit the farmstead.  Unfortunately, the house slowly deteriorated.  The barn hasn’t suffered quite so much, but still …

Mark's College Car

Mark enjoyed telling the story of his time in college, at the University of Nebraska.  He and his buddies drove an old jalopy.  At some point they decided to paint messages on the car.  One in particular, Mark liked to tell, said: “Girls who smoke throw your butts in here.”

 Well, I found a photograph of the car with the message proudly painted on the back half of the driver’s side doors.

Mark always finished his story by remembering that the young men were called into the College President’s office and given the stern suggestion that they might want to paint over this particular message.

So, the message didn’t last long.  But we have the photograph.